The Effect of Health and Penal Harm on Aging Female Prisoners' Views of Dying in Prison

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13628617
AutoresDayron Deaton (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro), Ronald H Aday (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, autor de correspondencia), Azrini Wahidin (Queen's University Belfast)
Año2009
Volumen60
Número1
Páginas51-70
Fecha de publicación2009-10-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.60.1.c
PMID20039531
OpenAlexW2059615393
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas50

With tougher sentencing laws, an increasing number of individuals are finding themselves spending their final years of life in prison. Drawing on a sample of 327 women over the age of 50 incarcerated in five Southern states, the present study investigates the relationship between numerous health variables and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (TDAS). Qualitatively, the article also provides personal accounts from inmates that serve to reinforce death fears when engaging the prison health care system. Participants reported a mean of 6.40 on the TDAS indicating a substantial degree of death anxiety when compared to community samples. Both mental and physical health measures were important indicators of death anxiety. Qualitative information discovered that respondents' concerns about dying in prison were often influenced by the perceived lack of adequate health care and the indifference of prison staff and other instances of penal harm

Anxiety · Criminology · Harm · Health care · Mental health · Political science · Prison · Psychiatry · Scale (ratio · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology